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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during talks with the US Department of State, John Kerry did not discuss participation of Bashar al-Assad in the election of the president of Syria in 2017, spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov.
«No, it’s not true,” – said Peskov, responding to a question about whether Putin during talks with Kerry demanded to prevent the Syrian leader to the presidential election in 2015 (quoted by “RIA Novosti»).
Sands thus confirmed that US Secretary of State and the Russian president did discuss the question of a political settlement in Syria. “Suffice it to consistently President pursued a policy that the future vnutrisiriyskogo device can not be determined from outside, it can do only the Syrian people,” – said Peskov.
The day before, Bloomberg reported that the talks with Kerry in December, Putin Assad has demanded to prevent the elections in 2017, and predicted his victory. Secretary of State, in turn, did not agree with the position of the president of Russia on this issue. At the same time, according to Bloomberg, the US government is already developing such voting rules that will reduce the chances of Assad to win.
In this earlier, Reuters, citing diplomatic sources reported that Russian officials informally talk about preparedness agree to the withdrawal of Bashar al-Assad as president of Syria at the end of the transitional period. Western diplomats have argued that Moscow allegedly prepared a list of possible successors to Assad.
December 18 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Syria, which includes negotiations of the Syrian opposition and the Syrian authorities. Monitoring the process of political settlement in the country will implement the UN. The draft resolution also suggests that in the next 18 months after the start of work on the draft of a new constitution in Syria will be elections under international supervision.
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